The Amethyst head believed to represent Arsinoë II

A maid endowed with excellent beauty, who almost might be supposed a goddess, sat upon a rock, seeming not a little to be grieved with that present mischance, ...

Pliny the Elder, The Natural History John Bostock, MD, FRS, HT ...

... head, sixty-two. The largest Pyramid is built of stone quarried in ... II., Philadelphus, in memory of his wife and sister, Arsinoë. See B. xxxiv ...

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT: Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon)

Auction lot 88: Ancient Roman, Carved Bone head of Medusa Cameo c.1st-2nd century AD. ... Arsinoe II and her forbidden amethyst gummy portrait.

Honoring the King in the Seleukid and Ptolemaic Empires

small altars naming Arsinoe Philadelphos, which seemingly could represent dedications ... Ptolemy IV and Arsinoe III (two instances), Ptolemy VIII and Kleopatra ...

Sardonyx – Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive

Together they show the development of cameo art over two millennia, and offer ... Twin portrait of Ptolemy II Philadelphos and Arsinoe II (Gonzaga Cameo)

Propaganda and Engraved Gems in the Ancient Roman Republic

However, regional diversity is reflected not only in the abundance of styles and fashions performed by gem engravers throughout the 3rd and 2nd ...

General history of Africa, II: Ancient civilizations of Africa

Cyrene kept its n a m e , but Tauchira was rechristened Arsinoë (present-day ... head and shoulders of the captive w h o represents the people of the said ...

Precious Stones in Nature Art and Literature, Sarah ... - gemology.se

beloved by Bacchus was changed into the amethyst, representing the color of this god's favorite beverage. ... believed every mineral enclosing water was of ...

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... purple which doesn't show much of a color change at all. This specimen ... Arsinoë II was a Ptolemaic queen and co-regent of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of ...

2853.txt - The UK Mirror Service

... head vivaciously, inquired,--"Whence did Aulus Plautius come to thy ... of amethyst color, forbidden to ordinary mortals, cast a bluish ...

Empire of Ancient Egypt - Siam Costumes

Ramesses II is believed by many scholars to be the “Pharaoh” mentioned in ... Only 2 to 5 percent of Egyptians could read and write. They were scribes ...

File:Head Attributed to Arsinoe II MET DT10849.jpg

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(PDF) A Group of Ptolemaic Engraved Garnets | Jeffrey Spier

... head II or III as Apollo14. Other examples could of Ptolemy be cited.15 The ... 44 when III; similarly to in 1901 was thought Nationale Arsinoe II. The ...

58236-0.txt - Project Gutenberg

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. Arsinoe II. 362 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. Ptolemy ... Bubastis was the goddess Aphrodite of foreigners, represented with the head ...

The Life of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene of Mauretania Andrew ...

racist beliefs in the present. Greek theories of racial superiority and the ... the bronze head of Juba II found alongside a head of the Roman elder statesman ...

Ancient Egyptian Culture, Mummies, Statues, Burial ... - Don's Maps

On the right hand figure, the head gear includes a pair of sinuous ram horns, and two feathers of Amon. Similar additions may once have adorned the head of the ...

manual of egyptian archaeology

22), ox- heads seen frontwise, scrolls, and flights of geese (fig. 23). I have touched chiefly upon houses of the second Theban period,[2] this being in fact ...

Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

... II at Abu Simbel. 5. Reconstruction of the sun temple of Izi (Niuserré) at ... head of Seti I. 368. The shabtis in the burial chamber of King Tut'ankhamun.

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engraved with a woman's head and two heads of reined horses; the name of the ... the following are believed to represent original settings :4 9. No. 779 ...

Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, BOOK XXXVI. THE NATURAL ...

... head, sixty-two. The largest Pyramid is built of stone quarried in ... II., Philadelphus, in memory of his wife and sister, Arsinoë. See B. xxxiv ...